August 15, 2024 • 22 mins
Kamala Harris proposes a federal ban on price gouging by blaming “big grocery” instead of limiting government overspending. Meanwhile, a female Secret Service Agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Caltech.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Ah all right, so uh first up? Oh gosh, why
does it have to beat this cat? A seventy four
year old man was arrested for being a dirty pervert
and doing dirty pervert stuff at a beach. Yeah. Oh,
and he looks like a dirty pervert who did dirty
(00:36):
pervert stuff of the beach would look like. Oh. It
was in Naples, Florida. Seventy four year old man was
arrested on Monday because he was exposing hisself and he
was walking around in his birthday suit on a Southwest
Florida beach. Naples responded to a call about a man
this is so gross. I don't know why I'm doing
bunny hands, but I do that whenever I'm very uncomfortable.
(01:00):
The police responded to a call about a man who
was exposing himself and walking around nude on the shoreline
of the Naples beach. And then when they arrive they
discover the old dirty pervert Richard Mansfield line naked in
a beach chair full view everybody at the beach. So
(01:21):
Apparently beach patrol had already asked him to cover himself
up before police arrived, which apparently he didn't, so he
was taken into custody and charge with indecent exposure. Why
do people do this? I don't know. Oh, by the way,
there's more cocaine. You know, this just happens all the time.
Now this time it's over a half a million dollars.
Just found floating in Florida. A package containing about six
(01:43):
hundred twenty five thousand dollars worth of cocaine was discovered
floating in the Gulf of Mexico near everyglade city in Florida.
Boaters noticed an unusual package and the mangroves off a
panther key and it was about the size of a
microwave oven. It contained fifty six pounds of cocaine, divided
into twenty twenty five individually wrap kilograms, and the barnacle
(02:05):
covered package suggested it had been a drift for a
significant amount of time. According to Call your County Sheriff's Office,
the new sheriff, whose name was Schmunter Heiden, picked up
the package. I'm kidding that far, it's not real. That
would have been funny though, call your county sheriff, Kevin
ram Rambosk. I think the citizens who got the package,
et cetera. I honestly would not be surprised though, if
(02:28):
a guy named Schmunter or Hyden decided to pop up
in Florida. I'm like, oh, here, there's a lot of
cocaine found down here floating in the water. So they
got the cocaine, Collier Kunt of Sheriff's office. They're investigating
its origin. They think it probably drifted east coast into
recent storms, and they keep finding all kinds of packages
like this, like apparently. I mean it's like every month
there's like some cocaine floating in the water. So who's
(02:50):
getting beaten by the cartels? Because that's like a lot
of cocaine to lose in it. Like that keeps happening.
I think you have like a delivery problem, but it's
not like you can complain like Uber eats door dash style, right, Like,
how do you would like to call and complain about
my cocaine delivery? Doesn't really work like that. Let's see
this is Oh wow, this woman is crazy. A Florida
(03:10):
woman was arrested after a five hour stakeout at an
animal clinic. She was pursuing a fellow an animal clinic worker.
She had developed romantical feelings for this animal hospital worker
treating her thick cat, and how she's facing aggravated stocking
charges for harassing the worker outside of the Parkland Animal
Clinic Broward County. Had to be dispatched and they took
(03:33):
her in. She's this crazy woman from Fort Lauderdale. She's
apparently she sat for over five hours outside of the
workplace at the animal clinic. And oh and she's apparently
has had some run ins with the law previously, and
so deputies arrived, they had to they had to take
her into custody. She had they had to draw down
(03:54):
on her because apparently she was also an illegal possession
because she's I don't think she's a I don't think
she's a legal possessor. She was detained place in a
patrol vehicle with that incident. Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
She had been sitting outside of the workplace for five
hours and forty minutes. Oh my god, good night, every
breath you day. That's crazy. At an animal clinic and
(04:15):
a birthday challenge. A Florida man stabbed his roommate because
they got into a stupid argument as to who spent
most on fueling their car. She now has another, an
actual proposal. You ready, guys, she is going to come out.
(04:38):
It's gonna come out with some price controls. Yep. Yeah,
it's a big deal for her, big deal coming out
with the price controls. She's proposing a federal ban on
corporate price gouging on groceries and stiff penalties in the
food industry. You know, because big grocery, not because the
(05:00):
government spending. You know, it's because of the Paul Newman
salad dressing people. They're like, you know what, We're gonna
overcharge people for our dressing. And then the wonderbred people
are like, we're also going to charge overcharge people for
our bread. It's big grocery, that's apparently what's happening. It
can't be government spending, you know. I mean, I realized
(05:21):
the Taliban just held a parade with all this stuff
they took from us and cobble. But hey, it can't
be government over spending and just losing track of billions
of dollars. It couldn't be any of those things. It
can't just be sending wads of cash towards Ukraine, like
we're spending, you know, gobs of money the ugliest stripper
at the club. It can't be that. It has to
(05:43):
be big grocery spending. Geees mm hmm, just saying And
of course the press is like this was great. Marx
was like, that's my idea first, So she's what her
campaign is. Literally, the actually promoting this as the first
ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.
(06:06):
And they want to set up clear rules of the
road to make sure that big corporations can't unfairly exploit
cut consumers because that's the government's job. Come on to
run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries. Heaven forbid,
somebody else actually make a buck the honest way that
government can't totally take. And then somehow it's it's excessive profit.
(06:30):
Never excessive federal spending, it's excessive profit. Hey, I got
a question about excessive profit. What about the excessive profit
of the Biden family and all the money they got
from not just like you know, the Ukraine stuff with Barisma,
but Romania and CEFC, with China and everything else. What
about that. Is that excessive profit? I mean, you have
(06:54):
a flabby cokehead who parties on his dam's dime with
strippers and blow and then he spits paint thinking he's
Jackson paula two point zero onto a canvas and sells
it for a cool half mill. Is that excessive profit?
I'm just asking for some friends, is it?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I think?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think old Dana has a response to this.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Do it? Maybe you need to spend less, pimp. There
you go, there you go. I'm just saying, sage advice,
sage advice from uh yeah, So I don't know, like
I I'm you know, I I don't what is what is?
(07:39):
What is big grocery? How can you have excessive profits
in the supermarket?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
If people just stop for five seconds just think about
this logically to think, I know, well, our audience.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Clearly they can, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But when the government with its overspending, causes the rate
to run is because the Fed has to fight the inflation,
the actual insertion of all the new money into the market,
because the government decided to spend it things like gasoline, electricity, energy,
all those things that go into say growing the foods,
(08:16):
delivering those foods, to the grocery stores. You'd realize when
you walk into a grocery store how much electricity is
in use every single day. Those are true hard costs
that are actually going up that the businesses have to
reflect in the pricing of the products that they provide.
It's not gouging. What the government is doing to your
(08:38):
income is gouging.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, well, and that's exactly I mean she's actually calling for.
Here is the hill piece that I am pulling up
right now. She's calling for the federal ban on price gouging,
and like people are doing this like that's not okay.
So you realize that you have businesses that are already
dealing with small margins, right, and they're already dealing with
(09:08):
inflation on top of it, because it's more expensive for
the people to grow the food, for them to package
the food, for them to distribute the food, for the
grocery stores to sell the food because as you mentioned,
with their power, electricity, cooling, heating, et cetera, et cetera.
So they're already dealing with small margins. I think, what
is it like a lot of the grocery stores and
(09:29):
that it was like two yeah, March.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Less than three percent profit margin? Yeah, across and that
was Kroger I think he reported on when they had
their latest quarterly earning.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, so less than three percent profit margin. So they're
already operating on small margins. Uh, how do you make
that with price controls and inflation? Because inflation is still
going to be happening with literally all of the stuff
that you're you're bringing in in all of the ways
that stuff is being grown in, packaged, and sent. How
(09:58):
do you make that mark? How do you make those
mare margins?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
What's more infuriating is that the government and sol what's
the margin on what the government's doing? They've put nothing
out and they take everything in.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Golly, So she's like, mom, I'll come out with a policy.
Let's do what the Soviets did.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's her and what Trudeau and Trudeau is doing that
in Canada?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What what when you have price controls? Guess what happens?
You have shortages of goods? That's econ one oh one. Hell,
I learned that my freshman year of college. Although my
valid most valuable class was logic. I will say, but
when you have price controls, I mean this is like
all throughout history you have shortages, Is there an I mean,
(10:47):
I'm actually true, there's never been an exception to that.
This is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard
in my life. And that's what they're doing. You're kidding me,
so no, I'm not. That's actually what's happened. This is
so goofy. So how are they going to actually.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Make Imagine if you're a grocery store in a dairy
that's been delivering you gallons of milk at two dollars
a piece because you know, inflation wasn't a big problem
at that point. Now they're delivering gallons at about four
dollars a piece to you. Are you going to be
forced by Kamala to sell your milk at three bucks
(11:23):
a gallon even though you're paying four to provide it
to people? That's what price capping does. That's why government
shouldn't be involved like this.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So what they're gonna So here's what they're doing. And
it makes me wonder if this isn't just an optically
based well it's still stupid regardless, but if it's more
optic than it is practical, because now if you try
to oppose her on this, she's going to and this
is what democrats, and with the help of the media,
what they're going to do is maneuver into position that
you simply oppose lowering prices. If you oppose her policy,
(11:56):
therefore you want to keep the price is high. It's
the most brain dead, illiterate, illogical argument you could make.
But we have a purposely evil media and a lot
of the people that lap that stuff up. I'm sorry,
you're just some of those people, some of the most
illogical people ever. That's their whole tactic. So it's going
so they're going to try to put Republicans on the
(12:17):
position on the offense of well, no, we don't want
to look it's not about they're going to have to
explain because they're going to say, you want to keep
prices high, we're trying to do something about it. Also,
it's a way for her to put some daylight between
herself and Biden and going this way, because remember, she's
trying to look like she's the outsider, even though she's
literally been there for four years since vice president and
(12:39):
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Oh we got to talk about this coming out. The
World Health Organization has now declared monkey pocks. We're not
calling it impos it's monkey pox, a public health emergency
as a new restrain spreads in Africa. You guys, remember
why they start stop calling it monkeypox because the World
Health Organization was afraid that it would hurt the gay's feelings,
because they said that it was spreading amongst that subset
(14:34):
of the population, and so they wanted to dispel by
like we're like suppressing awareness of it by changing the name.
People are morons. We're going to come back to this
because it's crazy. But they're trying to say, oh, guys, gosh,
now we got a real problem with the mpox stuff.
So a ruling fetus can I can't even believe this
(14:55):
is an argument. Fetus can be referred to as an
unborn human being as opposed to a dishwasher or a broom, Like,
what in the world this is in Arizona. It's an
abortion measure voter pample that they're saying this informational pamplet
They're going to decide this fall whether or not to
guarantee your right to decide to have an abortion as
birth control can refer to a fetus because they had
(15:17):
a fight over it as an unborn human being as
as opposed to what what else would it be? So
paradvice you every oh a compass cells, You're a compus cells.
You're a compus cells. I just this is so goofy
coming back to this, because otherwise I'm going to derail
the entire headline segment. Americans are dying younger than their
(15:39):
English speaking peers worldwide. Hmmm, yes, Kane, what are you
saying caine could be the things. Okay, all right, bmjs.
A recent study reveals that Americans at the shortest life
expectancy what among among six high income English speaking countries.
(16:01):
It rages urgent questions about the state of health and
healthcare in the world's largest economy, and the mandated you know,
faccio cheese just saying you know that thing, that my my,
my vaccine doesn't work unless you get your vaccine, and
that your vaccine makes my vaccine gooder. So they said,
they are looking at it's they that one of the
(16:23):
main drivers is largely preventable things like drug overdoses, car accidents,
and homicides. Huh wow, look at that. It's not what
the anti gun people say, is it. No, it's not
very interesting. And then also no, older adults do not
benefit from moderate drinking, according to a very large, very
(16:44):
reliable study. I might I get how it's you know, fine,
you want to have diverse forms of energy, I don't care.
I don't I don't mind. I like gadgets, I like tech,
I like other things, but I also like reliable forms
of energy. And I realize that certain places don't produce
the same kind of with certain things that other places do.
Trump was making a joke about some of what they
(17:05):
were pushing audio. Somebody seventeen, listen, your price is a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Think of that. They're going to take away eighty four
percent and the real stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's the stuff that powers the plants. It's not wind
that goes around and around.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And Darling, let's watch the President's State of the Union
speech tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I'm sorry, we won't be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The wind isn't blowing, darling. We have no electricity. We
have no electric to you, darling, we won't be able
to watch tonight. But perhaps sometime during the week it
will be blowing and we'll be able to get our
television on.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Colleen, you now with this, have you spitching gears here?
Have you guys heard about the Secret Service? We talked
about this, the Secret Service story, which I am still
I can't even believe this is an actual thing. Susan
Crabtree over at Real Clear Politics did a deep dive
onto this, and during a Trump visits to North Carolina yesterday,
(18:02):
a woman female Secret Service special agent, she says, abandoned
her post to breastfeed with no permissioner warning to the
event site agent, according to numerous sources in the Secret
Service community, shortly before Trump's motor cade arrival, five minutes beforehand.
She reports, the site agent was preparing for a rival
and that's the person who's responsible for the entirety of
(18:24):
the event, that particular event security. She said that the
site agent went to do one final sweep and she
found that this other agent, the female agent, was just
not even there. Had left her post and went and
had her baby with her, took her baby into a
room that was supposed to be set aside for special
Secret Service work in case like, for instance, that there's
(18:44):
some sort of emergency involving the president, and she was
out of the Atlanta Field offices and she was in
the room with two other family members. The agent, Susan Crabtree,
reports and her family members bypassed the Uniform Division checkpoint.
They were a ordered by an unpinned by an unpinned
event staff into the room for her to nurse her baby,
(19:05):
said sources, and unpenmaned. They were not cleared by Secret
Service to be there, and when contacted about the incident,
the Secret Service spokesman said that the incident did not
have an impact on the event and it's all under review.
Quote while there are no impact of the North While
there was no impact of the North Carolina event, the
specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is
(19:26):
a personnel matter, we are not in a position to
comment further in quote. So she then violated security. She
violed a security protocols too. She had her family in there.
This is insane and they think that it's not an issue. Now.
What's more with this is that the Secret Service Director,
(19:52):
also from Susan Crabtree, is addressing the was addressing the
agency on a conference call and pressing for a complete
paradigm overhaul and advocating for major budget increases, UH, saying
that the idea that we're going to ask you to
do more for less is over. We can no longer
operate with that mindset. We can no longer wear people down.
We had, you know, all this stuff. UH and oh
(20:13):
my gosh said that on the communications breakdown at the
Butler rally and the lack of interoperability with partners, Rose
said that he's directed the CIO to start looking at
how they can use a model similar to the White
House Communications Agency, which they said, UH gets into the
(20:34):
looking at the the way that they all communicate and
saying that it's going to require investments, saying and they
were suggesting that the command at Butler, at the Butler
event was it unified. What in the world I mean?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
This is?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This is wild. I you are there for protective duty
and you are required by your job maybe to literally
take a bullet, and you bring your baby to the event.
(21:10):
It is not the Secret Service's job to provide that
for you. There's a reason it's a Secret Services. There's
a procedure in place. Oh my gosh, and that you're
supposed to be, you know, operating at your optimal level.
You know, your situational awareness is you know, level red
you are on. You know you're looking out. I'm telling
(21:35):
you what for all of the arguments and for all
of the comments about the female Secret Service agents and
the one that was on stage with Trump at the
Butler rally performed her role very very well. I can't
say the same for the other two. But apparently one
of them was a US Marshall. This doesn't help. This
(21:57):
doesn't help that criticism of women in those roles, and
that wasn't a man that did this to them. Man.
The men are defending it. There's a woman that did it,
a woman that made the decision. This was a woman
that created this situation and put herself in this situation.
Men did not do it. Men defended her decision. That
is not something that you do in protective duty. Thanks
(22:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida man.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Ah all right, so uh first up? Oh gosh, why
does it have to beat this cat? A seventy four
year old man was arrested for being a dirty pervert
and doing dirty pervert stuff at a beach. Yeah. Oh,
and he looks like a dirty pervert who did dirty
(00:36):
pervert stuff of the beach would look like. Oh. It
was in Naples, Florida. Seventy four year old man was
arrested on Monday because he was exposing hisself and he
was walking around in his birthday suit on a Southwest
Florida beach. Naples responded to a call about a man
this is so gross. I don't know why I'm doing
bunny hands, but I do that whenever I'm very uncomfortable.
(01:00):
The police responded to a call about a man who
was exposing himself and walking around nude on the shoreline
of the Naples beach. And then when they arrive they
discover the old dirty pervert Richard Mansfield line naked in
a beach chair full view everybody at the beach. So
(01:21):
Apparently beach patrol had already asked him to cover himself
up before police arrived, which apparently he didn't, so he
was taken into custody and charge with indecent exposure. Why
do people do this? I don't know. Oh, by the way,
there's more cocaine. You know, this just happens all the time.
Now this time it's over a half a million dollars.
Just found floating in Florida. A package containing about six
(01:43):
hundred twenty five thousand dollars worth of cocaine was discovered
floating in the Gulf of Mexico near everyglade city in Florida.
Boaters noticed an unusual package and the mangroves off a
panther key and it was about the size of a
microwave oven. It contained fifty six pounds of cocaine, divided
into twenty twenty five individually wrap kilograms, and the barnacle
(02:05):
covered package suggested it had been a drift for a
significant amount of time. According to Call your County Sheriff's Office,
the new sheriff, whose name was Schmunter Heiden, picked up
the package. I'm kidding that far, it's not real. That
would have been funny though, call your county sheriff, Kevin
ram Rambosk. I think the citizens who got the package,
et cetera. I honestly would not be surprised though, if
(02:28):
a guy named Schmunter or Hyden decided to pop up
in Florida. I'm like, oh, here, there's a lot of
cocaine found down here floating in the water. So they
got the cocaine, Collier Kunt of Sheriff's office. They're investigating
its origin. They think it probably drifted east coast into
recent storms, and they keep finding all kinds of packages
like this, like apparently. I mean it's like every month
there's like some cocaine floating in the water. So who's
(02:50):
getting beaten by the cartels? Because that's like a lot
of cocaine to lose in it. Like that keeps happening.
I think you have like a delivery problem, but it's
not like you can complain like Uber eats door dash style, right, Like,
how do you would like to call and complain about
my cocaine delivery? Doesn't really work like that. Let's see
this is Oh wow, this woman is crazy. A Florida
(03:10):
woman was arrested after a five hour stakeout at an
animal clinic. She was pursuing a fellow an animal clinic worker.
She had developed romantical feelings for this animal hospital worker
treating her thick cat, and how she's facing aggravated stocking
charges for harassing the worker outside of the Parkland Animal
Clinic Broward County. Had to be dispatched and they took
(03:33):
her in. She's this crazy woman from Fort Lauderdale. She's
apparently she sat for over five hours outside of the
workplace at the animal clinic. And oh and she's apparently
has had some run ins with the law previously, and
so deputies arrived, they had to they had to take
her into custody. She had they had to draw down
(03:54):
on her because apparently she was also an illegal possession
because she's I don't think she's a I don't think
she's a legal possessor. She was detained place in a
patrol vehicle with that incident. Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
She had been sitting outside of the workplace for five
hours and forty minutes. Oh my god, good night, every
breath you day. That's crazy. At an animal clinic and
(04:15):
a birthday challenge. A Florida man stabbed his roommate because
they got into a stupid argument as to who spent
most on fueling their car. She now has another, an
actual proposal. You ready, guys, she is going to come out.
(04:38):
It's gonna come out with some price controls. Yep. Yeah,
it's a big deal for her, big deal coming out
with the price controls. She's proposing a federal ban on
corporate price gouging on groceries and stiff penalties in the
food industry. You know, because big grocery, not because the
(05:00):
government spending. You know, it's because of the Paul Newman
salad dressing people. They're like, you know what, We're gonna
overcharge people for our dressing. And then the wonderbred people
are like, we're also going to charge overcharge people for
our bread. It's big grocery, that's apparently what's happening. It
can't be government spending, you know. I mean, I realized
(05:21):
the Taliban just held a parade with all this stuff
they took from us and cobble. But hey, it can't
be government over spending and just losing track of billions
of dollars. It couldn't be any of those things. It
can't just be sending wads of cash towards Ukraine, like
we're spending, you know, gobs of money the ugliest stripper
at the club. It can't be that. It has to
(05:43):
be big grocery spending. Geees mm hmm, just saying And
of course the press is like this was great. Marx
was like, that's my idea first, So she's what her
campaign is. Literally, the actually promoting this as the first
ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.
(06:06):
And they want to set up clear rules of the
road to make sure that big corporations can't unfairly exploit
cut consumers because that's the government's job. Come on to
run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries. Heaven forbid,
somebody else actually make a buck the honest way that
government can't totally take. And then somehow it's it's excessive profit.
(06:30):
Never excessive federal spending, it's excessive profit. Hey, I got
a question about excessive profit. What about the excessive profit
of the Biden family and all the money they got
from not just like you know, the Ukraine stuff with Barisma,
but Romania and CEFC, with China and everything else. What
about that. Is that excessive profit? I mean, you have
(06:54):
a flabby cokehead who parties on his dam's dime with
strippers and blow and then he spits paint thinking he's
Jackson paula two point zero onto a canvas and sells
it for a cool half mill. Is that excessive profit?
I'm just asking for some friends, is it?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I think?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think old Dana has a response to this.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Do it? Maybe you need to spend less, pimp. There
you go, there you go. I'm just saying, sage advice,
sage advice from uh yeah, So I don't know, like
I I'm you know, I I don't what is what is?
(07:39):
What is big grocery? How can you have excessive profits
in the supermarket?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
If people just stop for five seconds just think about
this logically to think, I know, well, our audience.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Clearly they can, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But when the government with its overspending, causes the rate
to run is because the Fed has to fight the inflation,
the actual insertion of all the new money into the market,
because the government decided to spend it things like gasoline, electricity, energy,
all those things that go into say growing the foods,
(08:16):
delivering those foods, to the grocery stores. You'd realize when
you walk into a grocery store how much electricity is
in use every single day. Those are true hard costs
that are actually going up that the businesses have to
reflect in the pricing of the products that they provide.
It's not gouging. What the government is doing to your
(08:38):
income is gouging.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, well, and that's exactly I mean she's actually calling for.
Here is the hill piece that I am pulling up
right now. She's calling for the federal ban on price gouging,
and like people are doing this like that's not okay.
So you realize that you have businesses that are already
dealing with small margins, right, and they're already dealing with
(09:08):
inflation on top of it, because it's more expensive for
the people to grow the food, for them to package
the food, for them to distribute the food, for the
grocery stores to sell the food because as you mentioned,
with their power, electricity, cooling, heating, et cetera, et cetera.
So they're already dealing with small margins. I think, what
is it like a lot of the grocery stores and
(09:29):
that it was like two yeah, March.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Less than three percent profit margin? Yeah, across and that
was Kroger I think he reported on when they had
their latest quarterly earning.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, so less than three percent profit margin. So they're
already operating on small margins. Uh, how do you make
that with price controls and inflation? Because inflation is still
going to be happening with literally all of the stuff
that you're you're bringing in in all of the ways
that stuff is being grown in, packaged, and sent. How
(09:58):
do you make that mark? How do you make those
mare margins?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
What's more infuriating is that the government and sol what's
the margin on what the government's doing? They've put nothing
out and they take everything in.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Golly, So she's like, mom, I'll come out with a policy.
Let's do what the Soviets did.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's her and what Trudeau and Trudeau is doing that
in Canada?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
What what when you have price controls? Guess what happens?
You have shortages of goods? That's econ one oh one. Hell,
I learned that my freshman year of college. Although my
valid most valuable class was logic. I will say, but
when you have price controls, I mean this is like
all throughout history you have shortages, Is there an I mean,
(10:47):
I'm actually true, there's never been an exception to that.
This is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard
in my life. And that's what they're doing. You're kidding me,
so no, I'm not. That's actually what's happened. This is
so goofy. So how are they going to actually.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Make Imagine if you're a grocery store in a dairy
that's been delivering you gallons of milk at two dollars
a piece because you know, inflation wasn't a big problem
at that point. Now they're delivering gallons at about four
dollars a piece to you. Are you going to be
forced by Kamala to sell your milk at three bucks
(11:23):
a gallon even though you're paying four to provide it
to people? That's what price capping does. That's why government
shouldn't be involved like this.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So what they're gonna So here's what they're doing. And
it makes me wonder if this isn't just an optically
based well it's still stupid regardless, but if it's more
optic than it is practical, because now if you try
to oppose her on this, she's going to and this
is what democrats, and with the help of the media,
what they're going to do is maneuver into position that
you simply oppose lowering prices. If you oppose her policy,
(11:56):
therefore you want to keep the price is high. It's
the most brain dead, illiterate, illogical argument you could make.
But we have a purposely evil media and a lot
of the people that lap that stuff up. I'm sorry,
you're just some of those people, some of the most
illogical people ever. That's their whole tactic. So it's going
so they're going to try to put Republicans on the
(12:17):
position on the offense of well, no, we don't want
to look it's not about they're going to have to
explain because they're going to say, you want to keep
prices high, we're trying to do something about it. Also,
it's a way for her to put some daylight between
herself and Biden and going this way, because remember, she's
trying to look like she's the outsider, even though she's
literally been there for four years since vice president and
(12:39):
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Oh we got to talk about this coming out. The
World Health Organization has now declared monkey pocks. We're not
calling it impos it's monkey pox, a public health emergency
as a new restrain spreads in Africa. You guys, remember
why they start stop calling it monkeypox because the World
Health Organization was afraid that it would hurt the gay's feelings,
because they said that it was spreading amongst that subset
(14:34):
of the population, and so they wanted to dispel by
like we're like suppressing awareness of it by changing the name.
People are morons. We're going to come back to this
because it's crazy. But they're trying to say, oh, guys, gosh,
now we got a real problem with the mpox stuff.
So a ruling fetus can I can't even believe this
(14:55):
is an argument. Fetus can be referred to as an
unborn human being as opposed to a dishwasher or a broom, Like,
what in the world this is in Arizona. It's an
abortion measure voter pample that they're saying this informational pamplet
They're going to decide this fall whether or not to
guarantee your right to decide to have an abortion as
birth control can refer to a fetus because they had
(15:17):
a fight over it as an unborn human being as
as opposed to what what else would it be? So
paradvice you every oh a compass cells, You're a compus cells.
You're a compus cells. I just this is so goofy
coming back to this, because otherwise I'm going to derail
the entire headline segment. Americans are dying younger than their
(15:39):
English speaking peers worldwide. Hmmm, yes, Kane, what are you
saying caine could be the things. Okay, all right, bmjs.
A recent study reveals that Americans at the shortest life
expectancy what among among six high income English speaking countries.
(16:01):
It rages urgent questions about the state of health and
healthcare in the world's largest economy, and the mandated you know,
faccio cheese just saying you know that thing, that my my,
my vaccine doesn't work unless you get your vaccine, and
that your vaccine makes my vaccine gooder. So they said,
they are looking at it's they that one of the
(16:23):
main drivers is largely preventable things like drug overdoses, car accidents,
and homicides. Huh wow, look at that. It's not what
the anti gun people say, is it. No, it's not
very interesting. And then also no, older adults do not
benefit from moderate drinking, according to a very large, very
(16:44):
reliable study. I might I get how it's you know, fine,
you want to have diverse forms of energy, I don't care.
I don't I don't mind. I like gadgets, I like tech,
I like other things, but I also like reliable forms
of energy. And I realize that certain places don't produce
the same kind of with certain things that other places do.
Trump was making a joke about some of what they
(17:05):
were pushing audio. Somebody seventeen, listen, your price is a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Think of that. They're going to take away eighty four
percent and the real stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That's the stuff that powers the plants. It's not wind
that goes around and around.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And Darling, let's watch the President's State of the Union
speech tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I'm sorry, we won't be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The wind isn't blowing, darling. We have no electricity. We
have no electric to you, darling, we won't be able
to watch tonight. But perhaps sometime during the week it
will be blowing and we'll be able to get our
television on.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Colleen, you now with this, have you spitching gears here?
Have you guys heard about the Secret Service? We talked
about this, the Secret Service story, which I am still
I can't even believe this is an actual thing. Susan
Crabtree over at Real Clear Politics did a deep dive
onto this, and during a Trump visits to North Carolina yesterday,
(18:02):
a woman female Secret Service special agent, she says, abandoned
her post to breastfeed with no permissioner warning to the
event site agent, according to numerous sources in the Secret
Service community, shortly before Trump's motor cade arrival, five minutes beforehand.
She reports, the site agent was preparing for a rival
and that's the person who's responsible for the entirety of
(18:24):
the event, that particular event security. She said that the
site agent went to do one final sweep and she
found that this other agent, the female agent, was just
not even there. Had left her post and went and
had her baby with her, took her baby into a
room that was supposed to be set aside for special
Secret Service work in case like, for instance, that there's
(18:44):
some sort of emergency involving the president, and she was
out of the Atlanta Field offices and she was in
the room with two other family members. The agent, Susan Crabtree,
reports and her family members bypassed the Uniform Division checkpoint.
They were a ordered by an unpinned by an unpinned
event staff into the room for her to nurse her baby,
(19:05):
said sources, and unpenmaned. They were not cleared by Secret
Service to be there, and when contacted about the incident,
the Secret Service spokesman said that the incident did not
have an impact on the event and it's all under review.
Quote while there are no impact of the North While
there was no impact of the North Carolina event, the
specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is
(19:26):
a personnel matter, we are not in a position to
comment further in quote. So she then violated security. She
violed a security protocols too. She had her family in there.
This is insane and they think that it's not an issue. Now.
What's more with this is that the Secret Service Director,
(19:52):
also from Susan Crabtree, is addressing the was addressing the
agency on a conference call and pressing for a complete
paradigm overhaul and advocating for major budget increases, UH, saying
that the idea that we're going to ask you to
do more for less is over. We can no longer
operate with that mindset. We can no longer wear people down.
We had, you know, all this stuff. UH and oh
(20:13):
my gosh said that on the communications breakdown at the
Butler rally and the lack of interoperability with partners, Rose
said that he's directed the CIO to start looking at
how they can use a model similar to the White
House Communications Agency, which they said, UH gets into the
(20:34):
looking at the the way that they all communicate and
saying that it's going to require investments, saying and they
were suggesting that the command at Butler, at the Butler
event was it unified. What in the world I mean?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
This is?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This is wild. I you are there for protective duty
and you are required by your job maybe to literally
take a bullet, and you bring your baby to the event.
(21:10):
It is not the Secret Service's job to provide that
for you. There's a reason it's a Secret Services. There's
a procedure in place. Oh my gosh, and that you're
supposed to be, you know, operating at your optimal level.
You know, your situational awareness is you know, level red
you are on. You know you're looking out. I'm telling
(21:35):
you what for all of the arguments and for all
of the comments about the female Secret Service agents and
the one that was on stage with Trump at the
Butler rally performed her role very very well. I can't
say the same for the other two. But apparently one
of them was a US Marshall. This doesn't help. This
(21:57):
doesn't help that criticism of women in those roles, and
that wasn't a man that did this to them. Man.
The men are defending it. There's a woman that did it,
a woman that made the decision. This was a woman
that created this situation and put herself in this situation.
Men did not do it. Men defended her decision. That
is not something that you do in protective duty. Thanks
(22:19):
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